Example sentences of "why have n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why have n't you even opened yours ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ But you 've got to ask the questions : why did n't the other shopkeepers have a problem , why have n't the new owners of the off-licence ? |
| 3 | ’ ‘ Why have n't you done anything ? ’ |
| 4 | Education — the election debate that never happened Labour and the Liberal Democrats would take our school system back to the bad old days , argues ANTHONY O'HEAR — so why have n't the voters been told as much ? |
| 5 | Why have n't host nervous systems evolved resistance to the red gape drug ? |
| 6 | P.C. Well , Sir , if I have neglected my duty in the past , why have n't my superior officers done their duty and made a defaulter of me . |
| 7 | Why have n't heat pumps caught on ? |
| 8 | Scabby woman with my fiver , why have n't you jumped in and drowned ? |
| 9 | ‘ Why have n't you brought Corrie ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Why have n't we been affected up to now ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Why have n't you read this if you 're so interested ? ’ she challenged him weeks later . |
| 12 | ‘ Why have n't you told me before ? ’ she asked . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've shared the same ball as Waqar and Wasim all series , so why have n't I had the same degree of success ? |
| 14 | Why have n't you changed into your kit ? |
| 15 | Why have n't you taken one up ? ’ |
| 16 | Why have n't they got a sense of proportion ? |
| 17 | Johnny 's first words to me were : ‘ You 're a good broadcaster , why have n't I heard of you ? ’ ’ |
| 18 | And while we 're on about it why have n't I seen you |
| 19 | Why have n't you gone , sir ? ’ |
| 20 | But why have n't you brought him with you , Miss Maylie ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Why have n't you gone out today ? |
| 22 | Why have n't I the sheer drive to just get up and go , take the twins and emigrate to Oz or Canada ? |
| 23 | ‘ Why have n't we seen her here ? ’ she asked . |
| 24 | ‘ And why have n't you written anything ? |
| 25 | For Chrissake , why have n't you arrested anybody yet ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Tony did some sketches last year and he was going to work them up into a picture — why have n't you , Tony ? ’ |
| 27 | We are not in the least angry about this rather hurried wedding , so why have n't you brought her ? |
| 28 | ‘ Why have n't they ever ? |
| 29 | Why have n't the police come instead to drag me off in chains ? ’ |
| 30 | Why have n't you warned her about me , by the way ? ’ |